Cowboys' early focus is on improving turnover ratio

10:49 PM,
Jul. 25, 2014

Dallas receiver Dez Bryant signs autographs Friday at the end of team practice in Oxnard, Calif.

Written by

Ted Madden
Gannett

During his daily press conference Friday, Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett mentioned that turnovers are the number one statistic when it comes to winning.

There's not a perfect correlation between a team's turnover differential and its record, but it's close. Tampa Bay is the obvious outlier; the Bucs had a 4-12 record despite the seventh-best turnover differential in the NFL. But when you look at all 16 games, it's easy to see how that happened.

In nine of their games, the Bucs had the same amount of turnovers as their opponent, and they were 1-8 in those games. ...